I Just Like Balloons

How Fancy can you Twist?
That's all much fun,
but even before I get up to that stuff,
I just like those balloons.
Like a kid. They're just wonderful things. Beautiful.

I took photos of some real simple balloons I twisted recently.
I see though, that I was interested in taking real care in drawing on them.

















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The Butterfly !

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It's So Pink!

This woman was funny. She asked for a pink butterfly. This is what I painted.

You should have seen her surprise when she looked in the mirror and said....
"It's so
PinK."



It was from an event that I did several weeks ago - Grandparents' Day at a Senior Center. So I don't remember All the details as I look through the Thousands of pictures that I end up with here. But here's a picture of a little girl who wanted to be painted as a Princess at the same event. I have no idea if the two people in this blog entry are related - but I just look at the faces, and I think that they just Have to be related. If there wasn't the big age-difference, I would even think they were Twins. You think so?



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Just because you ate chocolate cake, doesn't mean that I don't want the a piece for me too

That's what I think of when people want a face-painting 'just like 'his''.
To have it on Your Self is a different type of fun than being glad that
your friend has one.

At this event for instance, several boys 'bonded', became a 'group'
by asking for a painting 'just like his'.















Still, I play with the design. Not going to paint the Exact same thing over and over. Hey, I'm spending my life here with these kids too. so we all had a good time.

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Balloon Festival

Oh My Goodness! I just found out about a Balloon Festival in New Mexico. October 3 thru October 11, 2009. It looks so Wonderful. What a great thing to do. Balloons. Floating, flying. That's what dreams are made of ~

http://www.balloonfiesta.com/

I hope I can go there sometime.
Apparently, it's a yearly event.

Black and White Face-Painting

I love Colors. That's one of the biggest reasons why I'm an Artist.
And that includes Black and White. What I like about Colors is the
feeling that I get from each one. Black/White usually seems so crisp,
so clean. Here are two Face-Paintings that I made is Black/White:





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Suitable for both Children and Adults

Here's the T-Rex. I painted it on both an Man and a Boy
at the same event. Slight changes for both of them, but
it wasn't really necessary. A good job looks good on
People of all ages:





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Pot o' Gold

It just looks lucky to have this.
I'm glad I painted it on the Inside of her arm:



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Fame ?

109,745 views! And that's just for completely
unadvertised, never mentioned Photobucket.

There's a new kind of fame in the world - now that
we have the internet. Even though I'm relatively
quiet out there (practically all I do is post on
my blogs and email friends and clients), so many
people are Looking! I just got my statistics for
Photobucket, the place where I upload the images
that I post here - just a worksite for me.
So that's a very small count of who looks
at my pictures. And they say that I have
had 109,745 views that I didn't even know
about. I can just imagine how many of you
check out - No, I cannot imagine how many
people check out this blog about Face-Painting.
Or my bigger blog at caricatureexpress.com

It's amazing. It's a wonderful world.

Let me tell you about yesterday. A day like this
makes me sooo glad that I'm fortunately booked
for 2 - 5 Parties practically every week. Yesterday
was cold in NY. A weekday. I was the Only Face-Painter
who went to Central Park. Selling Caricatures,
Face-Painting And Balloons. Very few people
stopped and bought. So I spent my time practicing.
Put an Amazing Face Painting onto my own face.
Got real good at the 260 balloon-hearts. Taught
myself balloon weaving.... I had a great set-up
with excellent samples - Attracted lots of people -
just about everybody smiled and commented to me as they
walked by. But they weren't buying. I was feeling sad.

I was cold. And carrying the heavy set-up through the
subways was soooo hard.

Yet Three Times - Three Times! - Strangers offered to help
me with my heavy cart on those long subway stairs. That
meant that they noticed my struggle, stopped their own
busy lives, bent down and lifted the bottom of the heavy
cart, and walked up long flights of stairs with me.
Another thing that happened was that one young lady
approached me on the stairs - "Where did you buy those"
she asked about my leftover balloon sculptures. I told
her that I didn't buy them - that I sell them. And she
was so happy when I let her take one for her daughter
(I wasn't going to be able to sell it anyway....).

So many people in the world. And it's so good to have them
all here. Aren't we lucky? Just doing our thing, and we
connect with all these Wonderful people. Hundreds of thousands!
More!

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